Specify shipping costs in your listings. It's against our rules to provide unclear or misleading shipping information, or to have unreasonable shipping charges.

Allowed

Charging actual shipping costs

Including the cost of packaging materials, insurance costs, and delivery

Including delivery confirmation or similar extra services in the handling cost

Not allowed

Excessive shipping and handling charges

Charging more than the maximum shipping costs in categories with shipping caps

Charging a separate fee for insurance

Charging for business-related fees such as employee wages or gas mileage

Including contradictory or confusing shipping terms in your listing

Offering or requiring additional purchases

Not allowed

You can't offer or require the buyer to:

Make an additional purchase

Pay an amount beyond the final price and a reasonable shipping charge

Sign up for a service with the purchase

Take any unrelated action (such as pay for a hotel room) as a condition for receiving the item or its benefit (such as free or discounted airfare)

Avoiding multiple quantity fixed price listing charges

Multiple quantity fixed price listings allow sellers to offer multiple, identical items in the same fixed price listing. Sellers can also offer listings with variations the buyer can select, such as a T-shirt in various colors, sizes, and styles. These are also fixed price listings.

Listing an item and then offering additional identical items for sale outside of eBay is not allowed. We view this as avoidance of fees, since the seller pays just one insertion fee and one final value fee instead of paying fees for each item.

You can sell multiple identical items if you create a multiple quantity fixed-price listing (Buy It Now or Best Offer) or list each item separately. Use these listing formats instead of single item listings to offer multiple items for the same final sale price.

Allowed

Using a multiple quantity fixed price listing to offer more than one of the same item in a single listing

For example, it's okay to offer buyers a shirt in 3 sizes and 2 colors as a listing with variations

Listing contact information (including home page web addresses that promote websites outside of eBay) in the title, subtitle, item location, or images is only allowed when the item for sale is a domain name.

Catalog sales

Allowed

Selling old or collectible catalogs from which you can no longer place an order (such as a Sears catalog from 1931)

Not allowed

Listing catalogs from which buyers can currently order directly, which could result in sales being completed outside of eBay

Listings that try to avoid fees can make for a poor buying experience and put sellers who pay their fees at a disadvantage. Also, even though offers to buy or sell outside of eBay aren't always made with the intent to commit fraud, there's always some risk involved.

Items purchased through an offer made outside of eBay aren't eligible for eBay services, including: